Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Great ideas, even when they seem to come all at once, actually emerge from a tangled undergrowth. Siegel, a scrawny, bespectacled teenager who was then drifting through Cleveland's Glenville High School, worked as a delivery boy for $4 a week, gave part of the money to help support his impoverished family and invested much of the rest in the adventures of Tarzan, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Imitating and burlesquing such heroes, he began concocting science-fiction tales that he mimeographed and sold to other students. One of Siegel's lesser creations was a story called The Reign...
...throughout the year, starting with the anniversary of Action Comics next month. The Smithsonian's exhibition of Supermanobilia will run until June in Washington. In Metropolis, Ill., they are refurbishing for summer visitors the large statue that proclaims the dubious proposition that this is "Superman's hometown." And in Cleveland, which really is Superman's hometown, a booster club that calls itself the Neverending Battle is planning an international Superman exhibition and a ticker-tape parade down Euclid Avenue in June...
...tomorrow in a big Ivy match...The volleyball team will host Yale and MIT at the Malkin Athletic Center tomorrow afternoon...Both track teams will travel to Yale to take on Yale and Princeton tomorrow afternoon...Fencers Michelle Kosch and Amy Newhart will participate in the Junior Olympics in Cleveland...
...black athletes will compete in Calgary, including Canadian Hockey Player Claude Vilgrain. If part of the problem is lack of black involvement in winter sports, that is changing too. E. Rory Flack, 18, is the most prominent of a growing number of black athletes following Thomas' lead. At a Cleveland exhibition last year, Flack was one of some 70 skaters -- all of them black. "I didn't know there were that many in the world," she says. "But there are a lot more. They just haven't made...
Senior center Eric Mitchell has had to fill the very large shoes of one Chris Dudley, last year's Ivy Player of the Year, and currently a member of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. Mitchell has come on strong after a slow start, averaging 11 points and five rebounds in the last 11 outings after scoring a total of 15 points in the first five contest...